ID / Identities | Istanbul (Turkey)

ID / Identities | Istanbul (Turkey)
Openings: November 22 – 23, 2012

ID / Identities, an International Art Festival of Photography, Video Art, Computer Graphics, Installation and Performing Art, will be held in the city of Istanbul. The Koza Visual Culture and Arts Association and the Avantgarde Hotel, the venues of the event, will open their doors on Thursday 22 and Friday 23 of November, until Sunday 23 of December. Ninety-eight artists, from different countries, have been selected to be part of this project.

The selections has been based on the main concept of “Identities” and on all its reflections on cities, bodies, society and cultures, mixing borders between them. Everyday we deal with a multitude of different identities and roles: we face the public life creating and adapting our social identities; our body and aesthetic tastes modify and are modified by our physical and sexual identities; our whole being evolves as well as contemporary cultures and modern cities do. People, environments, societies, progress and all their inputs shape and regenerate our individualities; they shift and overlap with our selves creating a new stimulating world.

“One person could be considered the little´s town roast or the last ant of a megalopolis, and also feel his own identity as full how the legitimate heir of an ancient monarchy fells his own identity. The identity starts in one self: the honesty gives valor to anybody that never has contravened men & women laws, because don´t exist any disruption in his intrinsic value how human person. While an individual man is complete, all is possible. It´s true that for arrive to the sources of material richness have a big influence where you have been born, in what family, or what´s your country, but always exist the possibility of strength the own identities because identities habit in oneself and all personal circumstances are changeable. And are more changeable when every one likes the change. For be an complete person, all is important: the own life experiences, the genetics, the place where everyone was born. Every person can grow up, also who´s have an “afraid heritage” (that kind of heritage helps to don´t repeat errors and to look for clear goals): the best wines have more varieties distinguished by their fragrances , whose could be sweet and very penetrating nuances. The best seeds give the most beautiful flowers when grow up in the best land, in a place where rain enough,and the sun has beaten the optimal quantity, without burn the flower. We change the sun for ourselves, the land for the place where we feel self-realized, and the water for our own life experiences… and we´ll have an complete human identity”. Ramuntcho Robles Quevedo & Marta Stella, 2012

After the event, our organization in collaboration with the curators, will select the winning artists of 1 Solo Exhibition in Venice, held in one of our exclusive venues between San Marco Square and the Arsenale or near the Ponte di Rialto on the Canal Grande; 1 year of participation to International Art Festivals organized by International ArtExpo and 1 week of luxury accommodation in an exclusive art residence in Italy.

prizes:
. a Solo Exhibition in Venice
. 1 Year of participation to International Art Festivals organized by International ArtExpo
. 1 Week of luxury accommodation in an exclusive Art Residence in Italy

International ArtExpo is a not for profit organization that provides a significant forum for cultural dialogue between all artists from different cultures and countries. We depend on the support of you. ArtExpo is grateful to all of the institutions, corporations, and individuals who support our efforts. We work with a number of national and international galleries as well as publishers, museums, curators and writers from all over the world. We help artists through solo and group exhibitions, gallery representation, magazine reviews and advertisements, press releases, internet promotion, as well as various curatorial projects.

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International ArtExpo is an independent group of artists founded in 2001 and mainly dedicated to contemporary art and videoart. Most of our last events have been realized in museums, galleries, private foundations and public institutions around the world. Our object is to use new technologies to globalize the language of art, to connect the conceptual points of contact of artists working in every part of the world, all united in the thick plot of the world net.
We work with a number of national and international galleries as well as publishers, museums, curators and writers from all over the world. We help artists through solo and group exhibitions, gallery representation, magazine reviews and advertisements, press releases, internet promotion, as well as various curatorial projects.